The SEEP Practitioner Learning Program (PLP): Reaching Scale in Youth Financial Services, conducted in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, seeks institutions currently providing or facilitating access to financial services for young people to participate in a unique program.

The PLP is an action learning project that will bring together key stakeholders to explore innovations in youth financial services to help microfinance and microenterprise institutions better respond to the growing need for appropriate and accessible products for young people (ages 12-24 inclusive). The PLP will focus on achieving scale with youth financial services, exploring viable models and seeking to understand critical stages organizations must move through to achieve scale. The envisioned impact of this PLP is to expand the number of youth clients served by appropriate financial services, and improve the quality and breadth of service provision to youth.

The goal of the Practitioner Learning Program: Reaching Scale in Youth Financial Services is that, through peer learning, microfinance practitioners will be better able to serve large numbers of young people with innovative, demand-driven financial services.

The PLP will select four (4) organizations currently serving young people with financial services to become PLP participants. Eligibility for this PLP is not limited to SEEP members.

Applications are due by 14 December 2009. The full RFA is attached below, or can be accessed on the SEEP site here.